There is always hope, and things have always been quite bad one way or another. You're looking at the past with rose-tinted glasses, and forgetting how bad it was too

It's a nice town. But it's so small you could almost miss it as you drove through.

Or to keep us docile/fighting each other while they build their arks and bunkers.

Food and beverage.

Now they're grooming your kids through the iPads, en masse.

Paedophiles are no more prevalent now than they were. The fear of paedophiles is through the roof though.